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Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, western Nigeria, has vowed to sack any of his commissioners who will dare to use siren while driving on the state’s roads and urges all public officers in the country to desist from using siren.

Fashola, who spoke at the National Council on Transportation on Thursday at the Civic Centre, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria lamented the unscrupulous way public officers made use of siren indiscriminately on the road.

The governor said since he did not use siren, he did not expect any of his commissioners to use it, as he would wield the big stick on anyone who violated his order.

“From the day that I have become governor in this state and until this moment, I haven’t had course to use it and I don’t intend to use it. I detest noise, but I think that it is even worse that people elect us to manage public transport on their behalf and we choose to escape from it.

“After riding in a free car paid for coupled with the free fuel, it is an abdication of duty. It must apply across the board. At least at the state level, I can speak. My commissioners have very clear order; they will lose their job if they do,” he vowed.

The governor questioned that looking at the road transport policy, “can you imagine in one of our state capitals, one day without blasting car horn? Can we imagine how lovely that day will be? And this is possible. It is because we haven’t done the basic things, that is, train drivers appropriately, punish those who break the law. Can we set for ourselves a day in a state without blasting the horns?

“Let us get rid of all these sirens. They aren’t made here. We buy them to enrich other economy. They were made in factories outside the country. And then we use loud horn, especially the one used during emergency. Are we in a state of perpetual emergency? If those who manage the public transport policy can get away by using sirens, it will never work.”

Fashola said the nation could develop a public transport system that responded to the public, protect people, create jobs, promotes economic growth and improve national safety and security, adding that if every form of unqualified person went through the security post in a siren, there was no way safety could be ensured on the roads.

“And we expect to be safe. Those we put there to protect us, cannot even detect who is who. So when they approach a check point with a kidnapped victim in their boot, they just put on their siren and drive away. These are things that we must really reflect about and take very had decision about which way we want to go,’ he said.

The governor stated that the nation must resolve as a nation to sanction illegal operators of public transport services as they were the major debilitating factor to the growth of transportation in the country.

According to him, “if people play by the rules, they register, they get state carriage, get licenses, and they pay taxes. We owe a duty to protect those who invest and commit their assets and who play by the rules from those who violate the rules. There are a lot of those agencies mostly paramilitary agencies, operate bus transport system without control.

“This is the time to put a stop to it. If they have cooperatives that intend to participate in the transportation sector, they must do so in accordance with the laid down rules and regulation in the territory in which they wish to do so,” he stated.

Fashola said the nation’s education, health and other key sectors of the economy depended mostly on the transportation sector, saying this was because with a reliable and efficient transport system, wastage, losses and efficiencies would be things that would be impacted.

“We will have less wastage, if vehicles don’t spend four days to do 12 hours journey. We will have more efficiency if the road networks are reliable. And complemented by water, rail transports systems. At the moment, most of the inter-state journeys are largely now embarked upon by air and the kind of pressure that we are putting on the aviation sector because other sectors aren’t responding sufficiently,” he added.
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capricon: BIGOTS anonymous

hmmmmmm, not me, i am still who i am, my poltical ideology still remains the same .

samilo88: Go and watch d BBC documentary "welcome to lagos" believe me you'll never be proud you came from that overrated shanty hole called lag. I was born and brought up in lag, believe me it is an overrated experience.

BBC documentary about lagos was shown cos Lagos is the most popular city in Nigeria to the outside world. How many times do you see BBC broadcasting good things about Africa ? I too was also born, brought up and still living in Lagos. If you and i , have done the necessary thing the " shanty hole " would have been a glory land but we both failed to do what is right

capricon: So u have joined them. Pity

bros, what did i join ?

Arab Money for Seun. Kudos to Seun and its team

GeneralShepherd: Have you seen in your words, 'while' some parents insist on communicating with their kids in English?!

would that make them to speak more than Gordon Brown ? Get a life bro

D case don die as normal corruption case dy die 4 9ja

Hmmmmm lovely

Not interested what i need to get now is Jet

What else can i say than " lack of maintenance "

Some of ds boiz must feature in Russia 2018

Demdem: Only if Ada obi had been responsible the same way fashola was in receiving his own, we won't be saying what we are saying today.
Ada obi was informed but he refused his own.

i love ds part, that shows that BRF is showing LOVE to all Lagosians wherever they may be in any part of the world.
Double Twale for BRF
Owo Meji Fun Eyan Kan
They hate hate hearing of this words" Fashola, Lagos, Jagaban, Tinubu " etc

Honestly most of our indigeneous language are on there way to extinction, most of our parents have done more harm to the language, imagine some parents beating their children for speaking in their local language . Some time i wonder while would a parent speak english with their children when you can communicate easily in your language. That is y i love speaking my Yoruba Language, anytime anywhere anyplace , i only speak in english where i believe is needed anything outside that is my foot.

Simple as A.B.C = Positive Transformation

Some time i think our judiciary system is one of the problem in ds our con3, only few judges are sincere in ds con3. Let us just hope he wont be welcme back from prison with aso ebi like they did for Bode George and let us just hope he wont be giving state pardon like Alamayesigha

Oya make dy go face boko boiz

What is indecency dressing 1st ? Cos is abnormal to Mrs A may be normal to Mrs B , any lady dat dress in indecency way should face the shame

Appear yesterday=Appear today=appear tomorow=3 man ctte= Nothing
abeg make dy park well

I love ds topic
who knows where 9ja money run go ? Who steal our money ?

teeo: Fully armed policemen numbering about eighteen (18) jumped down from the truck and some other police vehicles around and dragged me out of my car. One Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) ADESOJI ADEOSUN who was identified as the commander of the governor’s convoy informed the policemen that the governor had ordered that I should be dealt with and locked up at Mokola Police station
http://mobile.saharareporters.com/article/case-police-brutality-against-my-person-and-man%E2%80%99s-inhumanity-man-orders-governor-oyo-state-m

hmmmmmm, well if true ds is bad , but unfortunately ds is d handwork of Nigeria Police (FG) and Gov Ajimobi, so who do i apportion the blame to is it the Gov that gave the order or the Nigeria Politics that follows stu.pid order or the citizen that blocks the highway /over speeding/or what would i call it

Me personally just gbadun d man called " OLUSEGUN OKIKIOLA MATHEW AREMU OBASANJO"
BABA IYABO
BABA GBENGA
Na their wahala be dat if they no like am but for me na thumbs up

Federal Government of Nigeria have forgotten that Babatunde Raji Fashola is Senior Advocate of Nigeria.
Thanks To Late Pres Yaradua that made the Lekki-Ikoyi Link bridge Easy . May be they will set up committee that will review Late Yaradua plan on Lekki-Ikoyi Bridge.

400b ? Hmmmmmm then what are waiting for they should lodge complaint at efcc and icpc , and they shd not forget to present their fact against Adams Oshiomole

Hand over power ko , hand over power ni

[quote author=Mynd_44]The funny thing is that a lot of people actually support the ban[/quote]well i dont really support d ban but dos ridera need orientation on how to ride properly but it is unfortunate that most of the okada riders are ready to kill sm1, i can remember vividly june 18 2013 and june 29 2013, how i fell from okada due to bad driving, d scar is still on my leg. If not for God na rip dy go tell me

D bling bling pastor, don jazzy must be related to oritsejafor cos dr staff look alike .
The Spiritual Father of PDP

adejoro75: Mind you, some of these Yorubas are Muslims but they take alcoholic drinks when they are in a non-muslim territory

meaning ?

[quote author=Itoroetti ]Gov peter obi of anambra recently donated 22,500 laptops to students of anambra state plus 1400 printer at the rate of #2.65billion.
While his osun state counterpart donated just 3600 "opom imo ipad" at #8.6billion to osun state students.
Compare 22,500 laptops plus 1400 printer
with Osun state 3600 Opom Imo fraud
•22,500 laptops plus 1400 printer =
2.65billion
•3,600 Opom Imo ipad = 8.6billion
Can you spot the disparity?
Now who is decieving?who is truly the progressive?[/quote]d last time i check EFCC and ICPC are controlled by FG (PDP GOVT) yet they are yet to find scam in Opon Imo , so where did you know find your own scam in opon imo, my nro u can do better

IMHO, Ds is wrong cos ds is team work not a four man team

afta her beauty what next ? pls who get spoon i wan drink garri 4 ds night